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Please make your substantive points without being snarky.

This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I agree the snark was unnecessary, but in that moment I didn't have the time to think of a way to say that without it being perceived as worse than what I did playfully say.

Anyway, wrist slap accepted. I will do better in the future.

Edit: from that page, what's the meaning of the sentence "Edit out swipes."?

HN comments shouldn't contain swipes or putdowns, but of course those have a way of sneaking in to one's comments anyhow, so that guideline is asking people to re-read what they've posted and, if they notice a swipe, to edit it out.

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